UP Cops Create First Ever Green Corridor To Transport A Liver For A Patient In Delhi. Bravo UP Police!

A green corridor was created in the city for the first time late on Tuesday night to transport a liver retrieved by doctors at King George's Medical University for a patient in New Delhi's Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences.

The entire operation for non-stop transportation of the organ from the KGMU to Amausi airport was coordinated by Chowk circle officer Sarvesh Mishra on the medical university's request. "With the help of 50 cops, the ambulance carrying the retrieved organ travelled more than 18 km in record 22 minutes," Mishra said.

Organ Transplant Programme coordinator for KGMU, Dr Manmeet Singh, said that cornea, kidneys and liver of a brain-dead patient Pramod Sahni were retrieved on Tuesday evening after his family gave a written consent.

The 35-year-old patient had sustained head injury due to assault in Gorakhpur, on Monday and was referred to the KGMU's neurosurgery department. When he was declared brain dead his attendants were offered the option of organ donation. His father Ram Nayan and brother agreed for the same.

While the corneas were sent to the university's ophthalmology department, the KGMU authorities got in touch with Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences for liver and kidneys. SGPGI accepted the kidneys but not liver. "Accordingly, we got in touch with ILBS which agreed to transport the liver using an air ambulance," said Dr Singh.

A green corridor was created in the city for the first time late on Tuesday night to transport a liver retrieved by doctors at King George's Medical University for a patient in New Delhi's Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences.

The entire operation for non-stop transportation of the organ from the KGMU to Amausi airport was coordinated by Chowk circle officer Sarvesh Mishra on the medical university's request. "With the help of 50 cops, the ambulance carrying the retrieved organ travelled more than 18 km in record 22 minutes," Mishra said.

Organ Transplant Programme coordinator for KGMU, Dr Manmeet Singh, said that cornea, kidneys and liver of a brain-dead patient Pramod Sahni were retrieved on Tuesday evening after his family gave a written consent.

The 35-year-old patient had sustained head injury due to assault in Gorakhpur, on Monday and was referred to the KGMU's neurosurgery department. When he was declared brain dead his attendants were offered the option of organ donation. His father Ram Nayan and brother agreed for the same.

While the corneas were sent to the university's ophthalmology department, the KGMU authorities got in touch with Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences for liver and kidneys. SGPGI accepted the kidneys but not liver. "Accordingly, we got in touch with ILBS which agreed to transport the liver using an air ambulance," said Dr Singh.